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  • Taschenbuch: 432 Seiten
  • Verlag: Spectra; Auflage: Reprint (26. Juli 2005)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN-10: 0553585800
  • ISBN-13: 978-0553585803
  • Größe und/oder Gewicht: 17,3 x 10,7 x 3 cm
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In this cerebral near-future novel, the first in a trilogy, Robinson (The Years of Rice and Salt) explores the events leading up to a worldwide catastrophe brought on by global warming. Each of his various viewpoint characters holds a small piece of the puzzle and can see calamity coming, but is helpless before the indifference of the politicians and capitalists who run America. Anna Quibler, a National Science Foundation official in Washington, D.C., sifts through dozens of funding proposals each day, while her husband, Charlie, handles life as a stay-at-home dad and telecommutes to his job as an environmental adviser to a liberal senator. Another scientist, Frank Vanderwal, finds his sterile worldview turned upside down after attending a lecture on Buddhist attitudes toward science given by the ambassador from Khembalung, a nation virtually inundated by the rising Indian Ocean. Robinson's tale lacks the drama and excitement of such other novels dealing with global climate change as Bruce Sterling's Heavy Weather and John Barnes's Mother of Storms, but his portrayal of how actual scientists would deal with this disaster-in-the-making is utterly convincing. Robinson clearly cares deeply about our planet's future, and he makes the reader care as well. FYI:Robinson's Mars trilogy (Red Mars, etc.) received one Nebula and two Hugo awards.
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The new novel by the best-selling author of the award-winning Mars trilogy (Red Mars, 1993; Blue Mars, 1994; and Green Mars, 1996) as well as 14 other books deals with the danger of global warming. His protagonist is Anna Quibler, a scientist at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Virginia. A chunk of the Ross Ice Shelf has broken off, a chunk more than half the size of France. The Arctic Ocean ice-pack breakup has flooded the surface of the North Atlantic with freshwater, and the hypernino, now into its forty-second month, has spun up another tropical system in the Pacific, north of the equator, and is barreling northeast toward California. Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware have been declared federal disaster areas, and it is up to the NSF to save the country, if not the world. Robinson intertwines this plot with family-life details--about, specifically, Anna and her husband's love of their children, which, unfortunately, becomes a little too extraneous to the story. Nevertheless, the novel ends with a noble cause: the NSF staff determined to curb global warming. Expect demand for this topical and compelling story. George Cohen
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4.0 von 5 Sternen The thinking man's "Day after Tomorrow", 24. August 2005
Kim Stanley Robinson's latest offering takes up the theme of global warming and the concomitant climate change in a considered and well-researched novel of the near future. The book is a little slow-moving, especially in the area of plot development, but this is forgivable in a work which is obviously the first part of what will be (at least) a trilogy (Part Two, "Fifty Degrees Below" is due for release in November 2005).
Robinson is interested in developing two major themes. The first is obvious; the effect the continuing production of greenhouse gasses (above all, carbon dioxide) is having and will have on the world's climate and how this is going to affect all of our lives in the near future - if, indeed, it isn't affecting them already. The second is, perhaps, less obvious, but even more interesting; the nature of science, its role in contemporary society, and its relationship to other, more traditional areas of human wisdom, particularly - for want of a better word - spirituality. This is expressed in one of the major themes of the novel, the encounter between some hard-wired scientists and a group of Tibetan Buddhists. Robinson is revisiting here an area he powerfully explored in his masterpiece, "The Years of Rice and Salt".
The book visits other areas as well, like the day-to-day working of US politics, and the nature of roles and relationships within the family. Especially in the depiction of family relationships, the book has a sensitivity and gentle insight which I, for one, found very appealing. There's humour there too, particularly in this area.
In the realm of the discourse between science and politics in the US, I missed a treatment of the way science tries to deal with the (mostly) fundamentalist evangelical concept of "intelligent design", a major theme in this area in the present US which bemuses this European observer. But perhaps he will take up the theme in the sequels.
And I hope the sequels come soon, because the real action - the beginning of climatic Armageddon - only takes off in the final quarter of the book. The phenomenon of multi-volume stories is something science fiction and fantasy fans have always been used to, but it does contain a conundrum for authors. Either you try to achieve some kind of provisional closure in a number of the major story-lines in each volume, thus providing the reader with the feeling of a work which is rounded-off (but truncate the complete work repeatedly in an artificial way); or you develop the story and the characters throughout the whole planned project, thus leaving the reader at the end of each volume with the feeling that the story has just been cut off - left unfinished, like the end of a chapter.
Robinson takes the second option, which weakens this book, as seen as a unit. For this reason, I can't give it all five stars. But; this said, I'm very much looking forward to the next instalment.
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2.0 von 5 Sternen 325 pages out of 432 are boring, 22. August 2007
I read the Mars-trilogy of KSR and really liked it, even though there are some parts where Mr Robinson goes into details too much.
So I bought 40 signs of rain full of hope for an interesting read. That was a big disappointment! He goes on and on about boring details, e.g. describing on one!! page the absolutely irrelevant process of how a woman pumps milk from her breasts into bottles to freeze them and feed her kid later on.
It starts getting interesting from page 300 or so. The conflicts between scientists and politicians and the influence of the Tibetan people on some of the scientists, the actual climate change and so on.
In my opinion a short conclusion of this first book of a trilogy is sufficient to start the second book, Fifty degrees below, where things really get started and interesting. I'll buy the third one anyway to hopefully get a good conclusion.
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